DisplayManagerRework: how can a DM do plymouth internally?

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Mon Aug 20 17:49:30 UTC 2012


Daniel Drake (dsd at laptop.org) said: 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm porting olpc-dm to F18 /
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/DisplayManagerRework
> 
> Thanks for the good documentation.
> 
> The only detail that I'm unclear about is this one:
> 
> # Add the following line only if the DM can do Plymouth internally
> Conflicts=plymouth-quit.service
> 
> What does it mean for a DM to "do plymouth internally" ?

"Do plymouth internally" means the display manager handles interacting with
plymouth itself, and the display manager itself telling plymouth to quit at
the appropriate time.

Bill


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